Monday, 8 February 2010

Climate change is the new Europe

Despite having a huge lead over a dying Government, Cameron's Conservatives still seem unable to score the open goal many of us expected. First they tried to even the playing field with the NHS comments, then the row over the Lisbon Treaty, now it appears climate change is the latest issue which the fair-minded Tories want to argue about internally, and therefore make a game of the Election.

According to one MP, over 80% of the Tory party don't believe in climate change, or if they do they now believe it will be too expensive to address. Is this not a significant failing? How on earth can they be voted in off the back of a Bush-like refusal to deal with the world's most pressing issue?

Exposing the policy vaccuum

Back after a break, and the world's still going to shite. Jonathan Freedland made some interesting observations about the media's role in scrutinising Tory policy pledges - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/02/david-cameron-conservatives-wobble - if you can call them that. Each day we see another range of conflicting and contradictiry statements from various Opposition ministers - why is no-one pointing this out to the country at large?